LyondellBasell licenses technology for LDPE plant in China

7:27 AM MDT | April 4, 2013 | Francinia Protti-Alvarez

LyondellBasell Industries has licensed its Lupotech T and Lupotech A process technologies to Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemical (JSPC; Lianyungang, China) for a low-density polyethylene (LDPE) plant to be built at Lianyungang, LyondellBasell announced today. “We selected LyondellBasell’s platform based on the manufacturing cost performance and the capability to produce high-quality LDPE and very high ethyl vinyl acetate [EVA] content LDPE,” says Zheng Guo Dong, general manager of JSPC. The plant will have total capacity for 300,000 m.t./year of...